Source: Sun -
Maryland
Dated: December 29, 1919WIFE, 18, ASKS DIVORCE.
Says She Was Married AT 13 Without Her Parents' Consent.Marietta, Ohio, Dec. 28. - Married at 13 in Parkersburg, W.
Va., Mrs. Margaret Earley Hendrickson, now only 1_ years old,
has instituted suit for divorce in Common Pleas Court here from her
husband, Harry Hendrickson, of Tulsa, Okla. The girl
bride alleges in her petition that the parents of her husband forged
the names of her parents in order that the marriage might be carried
out. Her petition sets out that at no time has she lived with
the defendant.
In the petition the ceremony is referred to as an
attempted marriage and it is asked that the court annul the illegal
relation.